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mandarappmath Jul 19, 2011 10:13 am
Originally Posted by Often1 (Post 16756447)
It's based on highly sophisticated software which takes into account every possible factor about every flight. On one day, the "magic number" could be 2 and the same flight the next day could be 10. Because CO can always UG at the gate, there is a positive incentive to withold seats until the gate if there is any chance they can be sold (or used for misconnection paid F pax).
I understand that part.

I am thrown off by the I dont have a choice comment. Ofcourse I can decide when to check in thereby putting myself on BUG list instead of EUA??

ijgordon Jul 19, 2011 8:09 pm
No, there's no choice. EUA will continue to run until the flight goes to gate control. Whether you check in or not has no bearing on whether this process will upgrade you.

The upgrade standby-list is only processed by the gate agent, usually sometime between when the flight has closed for check-in and the T-10 minute boarding cutoff. You will necessarily have checked in by this time, so you will be on this list for upgrade.

How exactly you get the upgrade is out of your control; hence, no choice.

But since your priority on the upgrade standby list factors in check-in time (as a tie-breaker after elite status and fare class), it's always in your best interest to check in as early as possible. There is no drawback on CO.

sbm12 Jul 19, 2011 9:57 pm
Originally Posted by ijgordon (Post 16760160)
But since your priority on the upgrade standby list factors in check-in time (as a tie-breaker after elite status and fare class), it's always in your best interest to check in as early as possible. There is no drawback on CO.
:-:

Couldn't agree more, though I also do not obsess about it since time added to the list is the 3rd tiebreaker.

mandarappmath Jul 20, 2011 12:17 pm
Originally Posted by ijgordon (Post 16760160)
No, there's no choice. EUA will continue to run until the flight goes to gate control. Whether you check in or not has no bearing on whether this process will upgrade you.

The upgrade standby-list is only processed by the gate agent, usually sometime between when the flight has closed for check-in and the T-10 minute boarding cutoff. You will necessarily have checked in by this time, so you will be on this list for upgrade.

How exactly you get the upgrade is out of your control; hence, no choice.

But since your priority on the upgrade standby list factors in check-in time (as a tie-breaker after elite status and fare class), it's always in your best interest to check in as early as possible. There is no drawback on CO.
Thanks. So if I am reading this correctly, I will be under EUA and also on the BUG list when I check in at say T-24 and the upgrade will be processed by EUA alone. Only when the flight has gone to gate control will I and everyone else be booted from EUA and the GA's will start to process BUGs?

aacharya Jul 20, 2011 12:20 pm
Originally Posted by mandarappmath (Post 16764449)
Thanks. So if I am reading this correctly, I will be under EUA and also on the BUG list when I check in at say T-24 and the upgrade will be processed by EUA alone. Only when the flight has gone to gate control will I and everyone else be booted from EUA and the GA's will start to process BUGs?
That's a pretty fair approximation..

ijgordon Jul 20, 2011 10:00 pm
Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 16760675)
:-:

Couldn't agree more, though I also do not obsess about it since time added to the list is the 3rd tiebreaker.
Well, unfortunately I don't know whether or not it's ever "saved" me. I have been the last upgrade on a flight, and so it's certainly possible that the 3rd tiebreaker came into play. But they don't publish all that detail. So I will continue to (mildly) obsess about it. :)


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